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chevysmithz71
1/2 ton status
Wow did you find a hole.
Whats the damage??
Whats the damage??
Actually not too bad...
Gonna need a new topper, windsheild, front clip (rad support & DS fender are toast), tie rod, bumpers and topper. Rear quarter took some damage too, but nothing that can't be fixed. Earlier in the day I broke a lockout hub, and had some alternator troubles, but fixed both on the trail.
I've got a new topper, tie rod and windshied on hand and a front clip is a junkyard away. Gonna get some proper offroad bumpers built, and may need to weld in a new rear quarter panel section due to the damage to the tail light area.
Not bad for a day's wheeling
The turbo 6.2L performed flawlessly, even while the truck lay on it's side (don't worry, first thing I did was shut it off, probably had it off before we stopped sliding, LOL)
Gonna need a new topper, windsheild, front clip (rad support & DS fender are toast), tie rod, bumpers and topper. Rear quarter took some damage too, but nothing that can't be fixed. Earlier in the day I broke a lockout hub, and had some alternator troubles, but fixed both on the trail.
I've got a new topper, tie rod and windshied on hand and a front clip is a junkyard away. Gonna get some proper offroad bumpers built, and may need to weld in a new rear quarter panel section due to the damage to the tail light area.
Not bad for a day's wheeling
The turbo 6.2L performed flawlessly, even while the truck lay on it's side (don't worry, first thing I did was shut it off, probably had it off before we stopped sliding, LOL)
chevysmithz71
1/2 ton status
Forget all the fixes. Now it's your chance to get as hardcore as you've always wanted.
dammmmn brother!how did that feel?
Certainly an unusual feeling flopping over, but no one got hurt at all! Actually kind of fun, haha
Been there, done that. Several times. What I can't figure out is, whats all that white stuff?
J. (Fl)
Course, its 23 outside right now, headed towards a predicted 18. My damn 20 foot cantilever gate froze shut last night and I had to heat up the pillow blocks on the gate opener so I could go hunting this morning.
All you guys up there need to get together and give a simultaneous inhale and see if you can't suck some this cold stuff back where it belongs....
J. (Fl)
Course, its 23 outside right now, headed towards a predicted 18. My damn 20 foot cantilever gate froze shut last night and I had to heat up the pillow blocks on the gate opener so I could go hunting this morning.
All you guys up there need to get together and give a simultaneous inhale and see if you can't suck some this cold stuff back where it belongs....
and you have a great memory!
mine was more of a guard rail thing,after no sleep.{no drugs or booze was involved}. just flat out no sleep.a c-10 can not take a shot between the frame rails at whateverspeed i was going.
i woke up on the passenger door window!
anyhoo, cool pics bro.
GRINCH
1/2 ton status
You never did give the details of how it happened...
79rustyk10
3/4 ton status
do you have the OEM chrome steel wheels?
Oh, we were in an offroad park up here in Edmonton called the Alberta Safari Park. We hold our version of TTC there, and have all the top competitors of Canada (and some from the US) out to play every year.
Its pretty dug out from rigs running 70"+ tires, which makes for lots of fun for us little guys! This particular trail is basically a bunch of big nasty mud holes one after another. Since they freeze up in the winter, we are able to make it through them. However, they are super steep to climb in and out of, and all the Jeeps were having a bunch of difficulty getting through it and iced the hills of them up real bad while spinning their tires on them. The black K10 in the foreground popped a bead on one of his tractor tires just infront of me, and we'd just finished winching him off the trail and out of the way. I hadn't got stuck on the trail yet, while everyone else had been winching so far. I took a good run at the last berm, which is also the steepest trying to use momentum to get me up the side.
I made it up the side way easier than I thought I would, and had too much speed to be able to stop at the top. Just on the other side is the next frozen mud pit, which is bordered by 3 or 4 foot walls straight up and down and unfortunately, I wound up aimed in such a way that my driver's side tire was down in the pit, and the passenger's side tire was just far enough over to catch the bank and flip me right over. If I'd had just a hair less speed I'd have been able to turn myself left enough to just drop into the pit (though that'd have been quite the drop!) without flipping.
That said, I was still only doing about 5 mph when I flopped, and it was a pretty gentle one at that. I was in 3rd gear low range with hardly any throttle on when it happened.
I'm running 34x10.5x16" TSLs on OEM 2000+ Chevy chrome steel wheels
Its pretty dug out from rigs running 70"+ tires, which makes for lots of fun for us little guys! This particular trail is basically a bunch of big nasty mud holes one after another. Since they freeze up in the winter, we are able to make it through them. However, they are super steep to climb in and out of, and all the Jeeps were having a bunch of difficulty getting through it and iced the hills of them up real bad while spinning their tires on them. The black K10 in the foreground popped a bead on one of his tractor tires just infront of me, and we'd just finished winching him off the trail and out of the way. I hadn't got stuck on the trail yet, while everyone else had been winching so far. I took a good run at the last berm, which is also the steepest trying to use momentum to get me up the side.
I made it up the side way easier than I thought I would, and had too much speed to be able to stop at the top. Just on the other side is the next frozen mud pit, which is bordered by 3 or 4 foot walls straight up and down and unfortunately, I wound up aimed in such a way that my driver's side tire was down in the pit, and the passenger's side tire was just far enough over to catch the bank and flip me right over. If I'd had just a hair less speed I'd have been able to turn myself left enough to just drop into the pit (though that'd have been quite the drop!) without flipping.
That said, I was still only doing about 5 mph when I flopped, and it was a pretty gentle one at that. I was in 3rd gear low range with hardly any throttle on when it happened.
I'm running 34x10.5x16" TSLs on OEM 2000+ Chevy chrome steel wheels
